The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov
Title | The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov PDF eBook |
Author | Howard Nemerov |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | 535 |
Release | 2015-09-28 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 022622807X |
The former Poet Laureate of the United States, Nemerov gives us a lucid and precise twist on the commonplaces of everyday life. The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize in 1978. "Howard Nemerov is a witty, urbane, thoughtful poet, grounded in the classics, a master of the craft. It is refreshing to read his work. . . . "—Minneapolis Tribune "The world causes in Nemerov a mingled revulsion and love, and a hopeless hope is the most attractive quality in his poems, which slowly turn obverse to reverse, seeing the permanence of change, the vices of virtue, the evanescence of solidities and the errors of truth."—Helen Vendler, New York Times Book Review
The Selected Poems of Howard Nemerov
Title | The Selected Poems of Howard Nemerov PDF eBook |
Author | Howard Nemerov |
Publisher | Ohio University Press |
Total Pages | 177 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | American poetry |
ISBN | 0804010595 |
Judiciously selected and introduced by poet Daniel Anderson, The Selected Poems of Howard Nemerov represents the broad spectrum of Nemerov's virtues as a poet--his intelligence, his wit, his compassion, and his irreverence.
A Howard Nemerov Reader
Title | A Howard Nemerov Reader PDF eBook |
Author | Howard Nemerov |
Publisher | University of Missouri Press |
Total Pages | 566 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780826209368 |
A paperback reprint of the terrific 1991 collection that includes some of the late Nemerov's (1920-1991) best poems, short stories, essays, and his comic novel Federigo, Or, the Power of Love. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
War Stories: Poems about Long Ago and Now
Title | War Stories: Poems about Long Ago and Now PDF eBook |
Author | Howard Nemerov |
Publisher | Lindhardt og Ringhof |
Total Pages | 68 |
Release | 2023-01-18 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 8728365739 |
Widely considered to be among his best works, ‘War Stories’ is a collection of poems detailing Nemerov’s observations and personal experiences of the Second World War. From the grand, sweeping reflections of ‘The War in the Heavens’ to the haunting verses of ‘The War in the Streets,’ this anthology is as pertinent now as it was when it was first published. A superb book for those with an interest in World War II, or those who want to see a different side to this usually-satirical poet. Howard Nemerov (1920 – 1991) was an American novelist and poet, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1978. His novels are characterised by the use of self-deprecating wit and an ongoing sense of irony. While his books tended to satirise 20th Century American life, his poems often focussed on the beauty and innocence of nature. In addition, Nemerov also worked as a scriptwriter, most notably on the film, ‘Tall Story,’ starring Anthony Perkins and Jane Fonda.
Good Poems
Title | Good Poems PDF eBook |
Author | Various |
Publisher | Penguin |
Total Pages | 507 |
Release | 2003-08-26 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 0142003441 |
America's beloved author, humorist, and storyteller offers a selection of meaningful and enjoyable poems Every day people tune in to The Writer's Almanac on public radio and hear Garrison Keillor read them a poem. And here, for the first time, is an anthology of poems from the show, chosen by Keillor for their wit, their frankness, their passion, their "utter clarity in the face of everything else a person has to deal with at 7 a.m." Good Poems includes verse about lovers, children, failure, everyday life, death, and transcendance. It features the work of classic poets, such as Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, and Robert Frost, as well as the work of contemporary greats such as Howard Nemerov, Charles Bukowski, Donald Hall, Billy Collins, Robert Bly, and Sharon Olds. It's a book of poems for anybody who loves poetry whether they know it or not.
The Collected Poems
Title | The Collected Poems PDF eBook |
Author | Sylvia Plath |
Publisher | HarperCollins |
Total Pages | 384 |
Release | 2016-11-15 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 0062669451 |
Pulitzer Prize winner Sylvia Plath’s complete poetic works, edited and introduced by Ted Hughes. By the time of her death on 11, February 1963, Sylvia Plath had written a large bulk of poetry. To my knowledge, she never scrapped any of her poetic efforts. With one or two exceptions, she brought every piece she worked on to some final form acceptable to her, rejecting at most the odd verse, or a false head or a false tail. Her attitude to her verse was artisan-like: if she couldn’t get a table out of the material, she was quite happy to get a chair, or even a toy. The end product for her was not so much a successful poem, as something that had temporarily exhausted her ingenuity. So this book contains not merely what verse she saved, but—after 1956—all she wrote. — Ted Hughes, from the Introduction
Silent Dialogues
Title | Silent Dialogues PDF eBook |
Author | Alexander Nemerov |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Authors |
ISBN | 9781881337416 |
Silent Dialogues, by art historian Alexander Nemerov, is a probing, intimate reflection about photographer Diane Arbus, the author's aunt, and her brother, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Howard Nemerov, the author's father. "I have no memories of Diane Arbus," begins Alexander Nemerov in the first of two meditative essays that comprise this book. "A Resemblance" examines Howard Nemerov's complicated responses to his sister's photography. "The School" focuses on a body of Arbus' work known as the Untitled series, photographs made at residences for the mentally disabled between 1969 and 1971, in the last years of her life. Through their work, the author explores the siblings' disparate and distinct sensibilities, and in doing so uncovers signs of an unexpected aesthetic kinship. Illustrations complementing the essays include numerous examples of Arbus' photographs; paintings by artists as diverse as Pieter Brueghel, Norman Rockwell, Paul Feeley and Johannes Vermeer; and a selection of poems by Howard Nemerov, chosen by his son.